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How do layer-2 devices (bridges/switches) join a multicast MAC address?

I was going through the IEEE 802.1Q (2018) standard on my own. The standard speaks about group addresses, and how these group addresses are learned by transit bridges, which is all fine. But how do ...
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Bridge for collision domains

I have read that a bridge/switch can be used to increase the number of collision domains in the network, but somewhere I also read that a bridge reduces collision domains. Is it possible for bridge to ...
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